6. Important emotions In architecture Pleasant Love On top of the world Desire Aired Amazed Happy Trustful Peaceful Calm Serene Rich Respect Comfortable Satisfaction Proud Safe Curious Astonished Fig. 53 Brainstorm Explorelab 4
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Unpleasant Claustrophobic Exposed Dirty Confused Hate Anger Embarrassed Annoying Frustration Boredom Jealousy Fear Poor Irritated Uncomfortable Ignored Lost
Unspecified Overwhelming Stunned Small (humble?) Wide/Empty Nothing Clean Nostalgic Associated Surprise
Pieter Desmet defined in his dissertation the most important emotions concerning products. He used these emotions for his questionaries. We would like to know what the important emotions in architecture are and how this differs from or relates to the important emotions defined by Desmet. We would like to use the important emotions in architecture in questionaries for our practical research, in the same way as Pieter Desmet did. Brainstorm (2007.05.08) To help us find the important emotions in architecture, we asked the students of Explorelab 4 to tell us which emotions they had while experiencing architecture. We wrote them all on a whiteboard and ended the brainstorm when nobody could come up with any new emotions. After the brainstorm we ordered all the emotions in the categories pleasant, unpleasant and unspecified (see fig. 48).
EXPLORELAB_4 Research Thesis - Emotion in Architecture
2009.02.02